DTCV

French-American post-punk outfit DTCV was formed in Los Angeles in 2012 by Guylaine Vivarat (ex-Useless Keys, Tennis System), James Greer (ex-Guided By Voices), and Chris Dunn, a recent transplant from Chicago (the city, where he grew up and played in about a million bands). A music writer wrote recently (paraphrasing here) that the band sounds like Debbie Harry fronting post-Nico Velvet Underground, and while that's wildly inaccurate, it's less wildly inaccurate than a lot of things that people have written.

DTCV has thus far released two EPs, Very Fallen World and Basket of Masks. A full length album, However Strange, was released in late August 2012 on cassette by Burger Records to coincide with a national tour opening for Guided By Voices in September. The groop has just finished Hilarious Heaven, an ambitious (read: contains free jazz saxophone skronk and flute solo(s), plus two songs that surpass the eleven minute mark) double album with Steve Kille of Dead Meadow, which Xemu Records will release virtually in September 2013 and physically in January 2014 (with a cassette release by Burger Records as well). The brilliant artwork was supplied by Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices. DTCV will be touring extensively throughout 2013 and 2014 in support of Hilarious Heaven. (The title for which was taken from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. FYI.)

Adam Strangler

Please don't talk to me about the weather anymore,
Unless it is to tell me that you've found God's stardusts on the floor.
Plucked from his eyebrows where the hair grows thick,
While sweet baby Jesus is curled up at his feet.